Basic Instinct

Grade-A pulp fiction. This erotically charged thriller about the search for an ice-pick murderer in San Francisco rivets attention through its sleek style, attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things, and story, which is as weirdly implausible as it is intensely visceral.

Beneath its heavy-breathing fripperies, though, Basic Instinct is mechanical and routine, a muddle of Hitchcockian red herrings and standard cop-thriller ballistics.

Basic Instinct has the action and gore of Verhoeven's Total Recall and the cool sheen of his equally bloody RoboCop. Verhoeven can deliver style in spades, but Eszterhas' jumble of confusing plot twists and conventional movie cliches proves fatal. [20 Mar 1992, p.29]

Despite (or maybe because of) his obligatory nods to Hitchcock, this is slick and entertaining enough to work quite effectively as thriller porn, even with two contradictory denouements to its mystery (take your pick--or rather, your ice pick).

This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance, a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels.

Verhoeven does not explore the dark side, but merely exploits it, and that makes all the difference in the world.

A perverse, lame-brained thriller that is pornographic, misogynist and homophobic. If that makes it sound appealing, I should also add that it's silly, boring and intellectually insulting.

Um filme sensacional, pena que o diretor tenha sido um babaca com a atriz. Ainda assim, gostei muito do filme, é bem interessante, intrigante e sexy.

A thrilling and stylish neo-noir erotic mystery that keeps you guessing through sharp psychological mind games and iconic tension.2008 (3.0)Directed by Paul Verhoeven, "Basic Instinct" (1992) is a defining 1990s erotic neo-noir thriller that blends intense police procedural drama with provocative psychological suspense. The story follows Nick Curran, a troubled and impulsive San Francisco police detective recovering from substance abuse, who is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a wealthy retired rock star killed with an ice pick during an intimate encounter. The primary suspect is Catherine Tramell, a mesmerizing, highly intelligent, and enigmatic bisexual crime novelist who happened to write a fictional book detailing a murder identical to the crime. As Nick plunges deeper into the investigation, he becomes dangerously fascinated by Catherine, ignoring the warnings of his colleagues and his police psychologist and former lover, Dr. Beth Garner. Catherine orchestrates a high-stakes psychological game, manipulating Nick's instincts, desires, and vulnerabilities while leaving a trail of ambiguous clues and ambiguous motives. Starring Michael Douglas as Nick Curran and Sharon Stone in a career-defining, iconic performance as Catherine Tramell, alongside Jeanne Tripplehorn, the film is famed for its sultry atmosphere, sharp score by Jerry Goldsmith, and polished cinematography by Jan de Bont. Viewing this in 2013 provided an engaging, suspenseful experience, showcasing the peak of 1990s erotic thriller aesthetics and captivating character dynamics.

Many explicite violent and sex scenes. Movie provokes in many ways. Story isnt that bad though.

This movie revolves around the mysterious murder of a celebrity and the attempt to discover the killer. The main suspect is Catherine Tramell, a fiction writer who wrote a similar crime in a book. But she is intelligent and manipulative, as well as a sexual predator, and will not hesitate to seduce Detective Nick Curran. The film features the memorable interpretations of Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, in the role that made her famous. The script is interesting but flawed and far from perfect. In fact, it has several plot holes, as the fact of completely ignoring DNA forensic evidence. The crime, moreover, loses importance throughout the film, as Tramell seduces Curran. In the end, nobody remembers the guy who died first. The hottest scenes are very choreographed, look spectacular and must have been very exciting by the time the film was released. Just remember the famous cross-legged scene, the most famous of the film and one of the rare occasions when an actress's **** appears in a frontal scene with nothing covering it. Stone looks well in her role, although it was the only film where she shone. Douglas makes a good cop but does not build any erotic chemistry with her. Its an erotic thriller with ambitions of a police film, whose content grazes pornography in a dangerous way. Much of the erotic scenes were not necessary and were even dispensable, if the film wanted to focus on crime. Stubbornly overrated due to that, it does not have the quality it advertises and promises.

I felt like I was watching a porno, with the same production value and cheap plot. The sex scenes were entirely over the top, and the movie was extremely predictable. Pretty much a waste of 2 hours.